September 2008

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A Japanese-speaker learning Vietnamese or a Vietnamese-speaker learning Japanese will both notice that a lot of words in the other language seem to correspond with words in their native language. And both the Japanese-speaker and Vietnamese-speaker ought to know that the corresponding words (cognates) are part of the Chinese-derived vocabulary that make up about […]

There are many ways to get Vietnamese letters into your text editor. If you just want to enter a few letters and don’t want to install anything then you can pull up Character Map which you will find in Windows under Accessories and then under System Tools. Unfortunately, the Vietnamese specific characters are […]